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Terrace in an Italian garden

Maker

(artist)
1733-1808

(artist)
1732-1806

Title

Date of Production

circa 1760

Medium

red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 32.6 cm
Width: 44.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.232

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

One of the most preeminent artists of the Enlightenment, Hubert Robert is known for his large red chalk landscape drawings conceived as independent works. This view of an artfully overgrown garden, populated solely by a classical sculpture and a laundress with her child, was long attributed to Robert’s contemporary, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, with whom Robert worked side-by-side in the environs of Rome. This sheet may in fact be a collaboration between the artists. The stillness of a Roman summer afternoon and the transitory effects of light are conveyed by the use of untouched paper to produce highlights in the varying densities of the chalk.

Provenance

anonymous sale, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 26 June 1924, lot 6 (repr., as by Fragonard); purchased there by Mathilde Lippmann-Mayer (dealer), Paris, (36,500 francs); Adrien Fauchier Magnan (1873-1963/65); his sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1935, lot 15 (repr., titled 'Park scene', by Fragonard); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£260); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 02/10/2012-27/01/2013

Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2012-09/09/2012

About Time, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 24/02/2000-30/05/2000 ...More

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992

Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968 ...Less

Literature

Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, Frick Collection, New York and Courtauld Gallery, London London 2012-2013
cat. no. 34
ill. on p. 167
entry author: Stephanie Porras; as Robert, c. 1760

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 60
pp. 128, 189-90
ill. on p. 129
as Robert, c. 1760, can no longer be called 'Tivoli Gardens'

Wintermute, Alan et al., Claude to Corot : the development of landscape painting in France, New York and Seattle; Colnaghi, in association with University of Washington Press 1990
p. 208 under no. 42
fig. 1 on p. 206
entry author: Bronwyn T. Maloney. Helen Braham's annotations indicate most of the information in this entry is incorrect. ...More

J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, Villa Medici, Rome, 6 December 1990 - 24 February 1991
pp. 26, 28, 30n20
fig. 7 on p. 26

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 71
ill. on p. 83

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 232

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 600

Hulton, Paul, 'Review: France in the 18th century at the Royal Academy' in 'Master Drawings', 1968; VI, 2
p. 166
agreed with reattribution to Robert

Ananoff, Alexandre, L’oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): Catalogue raisonné, 3 vols., Paris 1961-70
vol. I, no. 368
vol. III, fig. 512
as Fragonard

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 232
pl. LVII
as Robert, called 'The Tivoli Gardens', dated c. 1760

Réau, L., Fragonard: sa vie et son oeuvre, Brussels 1956
p. 216
described as a version of 'L'allee ombreuse' by Fragonard in the Fauchier-Magnan collection ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, right centre: fleur-de-lys encircled and crowned; Countermark: Verso, left centre: three lines of text, paper very fine but probably reads “FIN DE / MONTGOLFIER / DANNONAY” (no match in Heawood but see same text in Heawood 198 and 2415 – Paris c. 1793 and Marseille 1764 respectively).

Inscription: Verso: lower right corner, graphite, modern hand: “II 19”.

Collector's mark: none.

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